A Trip Down Memory Lane

[~*Ashiee*~]

Remember what it was like when T.V. used to sign off?

Remember watching the last few minutes of signed off T.V. waiting for Sesame Street to begin?

Remember when one T.V. channel was all you needed, and a remote was unheard of and you used to be happy
when yuh picking up channel nine.


Remember when Dominic Kalipersad was the man on TV from 7pm and you used to wish news was never a show.


Remember when Judy Alcantara and Allyson Hennesey used to come on the TV every day around lunch time for Dateline ?


What about de weatherman Robin Maharaj?


Remember when Channel 6 come on de air, how that was like the biggest thing on TV.


Remember when a donky kong, centipede, pac man  or an Atari game was cool.


Remember When chicken and chips was Kentucky and you always wanted a Kentucky kids pack to get a Jo Jo dollar.


Remember pitchin' marbles, pickin' mangoes, peltin' stones, shooting caps guns, checkin' guavas for worms, flyin' kite, lightin' flambo, bussin bamboo, runnin' races and home free?


Remember when as soon as you reach on the beach you want to run in de water fast fast.

 
Remember when yu wanted to see how deep yuh could dig a hole in de sand and if you could reach water


Remember when walking arm in arm (sober) with a guy wasn't gay?


Remember when it was no big deal to kiss your father and your mother's >>lipstick stayed on your face for the whole day of school? (Fuh real with the lipstick sh*t!!)


Remember Alladin lunch kits and Trinpad copy books that had the national anthem and I solemnly pledge on the inside cover?


Remember snakes and ladders, ludo, chinese checkers, go to pack, suck the well, rounders, red light green light one two three, I spy, scooch and, kiss catch- girls catch the boys (never wanted to get caught, but deep inside wanted to get kissed) hop scotch,


Remember Star Wars, Buck Rogers, Star Trek, MacGyver, Equaliser, Simon and Simon, Super Friends, the adventures of Batman and Robin, thunder cats, galaxy rangers, Teen Talent, Scouting for Talent, Twelve and Under, pick a pan in Mastana Bahar, No Boundaries, Turn of the Tide.
What about Ralph Maharaj in Cross Country?

Remember Wendell Constantine in Party Time? G-Force, Terror Hawks, Super Gran, Star Fleet, He-Man,  She-ra, Street Hawk, Fall Guys. A-Team, even the old people shows like Knots Landing, Falcon Crest and JR and Bobby in Dallas and as much as I hate to admit it- Circle Square? (I used to love Circle Square J)

What about when Kiskidee Caravan was the biggest concert out. Dan it up, Shot call, Ambush and Edoo Edoo pom pom. (bloy bloy)

Remember when an RX 7 was de coolest car. When yuh see a black RX 7 it was always de Knight rider car. What about those Knight rider lights.

Remember when Cinema was the big lime, south people remember going Gulf City to go in de cinema upstairs?

Remember when Chinese Laundry dub tapes or rhythm nation, Dr Hyde was most wanted. Remember when Papa Rocky was a big time DJ.

Remember when de only soca tune yu liked was "Dey say ah too young for soca, oy yoo yoyy dey making joke" and roll up de tassa, and Sparrow's never eat a white meat yet. Oh gawdd, what about bump and wine.  Wait Wait, what about Nelson's Soca Daddy (She fall and ... she uh uh)

Remember when the only two ladies you knew who used to sing Calypso was Denyse Plummer and Drupatee. Never did you think ayyy we going to see a sexy woman on stage!

What about acid wash or stone wash jeans or hood tops with Malcolm X on it.

Remember when shorts for girls used to reach all by they knee and you would be like "she looking nice".

What about Ricky Ticky and Uncle Ian who used to draw all kind of lines and say this is the sun and that is the forest. 

Remember when goin Intercol was the biggest lime after school. Either yuh looking to go Skinner Park or in de Stadium or Oval.

What about those two to eight limes. Or when hanging by the video arcade was cool.

Remeber Fatima Mayfair that finish 6pm and yuh beg yuh modder to go pizza hut till 8.

What about the Penal Convent bazaars

Remember when going in the direction after Hilton was like going on some hike in some weird area. Never heard about Coconuts then?
The only reason you going around the savannah was to go in the zoo or by de botanic gardens.

Remember when "race" was a word used to describe a running competition, "colour" was used to describe yuh water paints or yuh drawing book and religion was remembering the "our father" and "thank you for the food we eat".

Remember when a fight was a few hard cuff and ended with a simple sorry.

Remember when disease was the cold, starvation was a belly ache, a cold drink was a big red, a solo or a tall pepsi and how high you got depended on who was pushing the swings.

Remember when the Prime Minister was just a name in Social Studies and politics was just a word in your spelling book.

Remember when guns were full of water and knives were made of plastic?

[Cross]

"What about the Penal Convent bazaars "

YESSSSSSSSS

[Saxito Pau]

Thas a HELL of along list of things to remember.

I'll add a couple:

Remember when schoolkids used to rush BIG MAXI when the yellow band maxi stand was where the BL promenade now resides?

Remember when the Diego/POS maxi fare was just $1.50??  And you sometimes used to get away with paying just $1.00??

[Qloxx]

Remember when all short drop was $1

Remember when you and your friends used to play that is my car and had big falling out because two of alyuh had de same car.

remember when you could be in and out of Trincity mall in 15 minuites

Remember when the best chicken and chips was Sunday basket

Remember when it had 5cent sweetie
Ah starting to feel old now ah go stop.

[Red Paradox]

Remember when doubles used to be $1.00

Remember when CCN TV6 ruled local television

Remember when Pamela Anderson Lee looked like a bombshell and not a "bomb"

Remember when Sunday Punch used to actually have sweet girls in them

Remember when Chicago Bulls pawned all other teams

Remember when Trinidad didn't have all this f***in' kidnapping and price inflation and other f***ery like that

Huh?! Do YOU?!?!?

DO YOU REMEMBAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


........sorry

[Cross]

Remember when ICQ was the shizznit

[W1nTry]

WAYS... gyul bring up some memories dread... (trying to figure out gyul hitting fatima mayfair and asking bout Penal convent... where you from anys? lol). And ways at Cinema in GULF... ways.... wow that was SO long ago....

Remember when Sesame St. HAD KERMIT THE FROG (yeah in case yuh doh know HE GONE..... *W1nTry sobs bitterly in corner*)
Remember when doubles was 1$ and a single was 50c?
Remember when KFC snack pack was < $20
Remember when the only pizza was Mario's or Joe's?
Remember when the TV had a DIAL and NOT buttons save power? (which was a push and pull button to boot!)
Remember when Indian movie was a sunday evening event on TTT?
Remember when the biggest argument yuh had was who primary school bigger

[Spazosaurus]

OMG What happened to kermit?? Did he die?

Remember how lunchime's main passtime in primary school was football with a chubby bottle?

[disciple]

lol @ kermit.. dred, remember when elmo was just a minor character?


remember when 98.9 had now start broadcasting?
remember when globe was d lousy cinema, and astor was d bomb?
remember when astor closed down, and globe became the flick?

remember when maxis had HARD pong, and yuh coulda hear them from a mile away?
remember the customised cassettes the abovementioned maxis used to have ? "yes, welcome back into  60 minutes of Dr.Hyde.. Big up to the driver of HAX 4523"

[Qloxx]

Chakra for dat bring back memories
Remeber the big maxis Damage, Brain damage and the small one Baby damage ahhhh yes seat of choice back of the bus on the speakers, because when overloading start is LADIES find a nice seat. LOL those were the days DAMN you Sexual Harrasment.

[rb]

remember when gatt had competitions monthly in sns
remember when friday zk and foak used to sweat on tv in sns
remember when you layout a challenge in street fighter bout 20 man on yuh case..now if u get 2 yuh lucky
remember when I beat baego 5 - 3 in a first to five contest and he continue counting till we reach 10 each
remember when baego get lixx double perfect in the finals of the soul calibur 2 tournament in euro
remember when beak0p would randomly appear and pwn ppl in unreal
remember when mark died almost the whole of sns crew make it up to mamoral for he funeral
remember when yuri would win death matches in mohaa and then cuss hard much to the dismay of sns staff.
remember when we released flip out and kill attacking the cows for the first time and ppl was loling for days.
remember the days when respect used to mean a whole lot.

ah yes good times minus the funeral

[New Era Outlaw]

A nostalgia thread, eh?
Man...nearly all of those things called out by SplitPsycho I remember as if it were only yesterday. I'd like to add a few:

- Remember when Nintendo Outlet used to be the place to lime? Up to the point where you actually ran away from school or after school just to beast games?

- Remember when the chicken whip was the most feared item in school?

- Remember those $1 photocopies of Street Fighter and Mortal Kombat drawings those men used to sell, and you just had to have one?

- Remember when Mortal Kombat II was the SNES game to have?

- Remember the days when all you knew about Street Fighter was 'kick and trip', and, if you were lucky, (after several laboured mashing and joystick wringing) a 'magic'?

remember when mark died almost the whole of sns crew make it up to mamoral for he funeral

...correct me if I'm wrong, but that was wanton, right?
I remember coming into GATT virtually a few days after that happened...man, I felt really bad about that.

[rb]

yeah that was wanton

[W1nTry]

Remember the days when yuh coulda check the front page of a newspaper and see oh... a female masqueraders WITHOUT THE BIG BOLD CHILD/MAN/FAMILY MURDERED/BATTERED/KIDNAPPED RIGHT next to it? *sighs*

[Cross]

remember when it was safe to leave your doors unlocked home

-when you had a special maxi (for those of us in south Sensation and Nu Image) to go and come from school so if they come 4 o clock yuh still waitin

-when men used to walk around school with nrop on their....diskettes....

-when burners now release and yuh waiting 2 hrs to get a bess music cd
 
-when dial up was fast 0_o yes there was once a time

[Qloxx]

Remember when having a computer was like wow

Remember when you looked forward to going by your favorite aunt because your cousin had the snes and a big screen tv.

Remamber when the calculator watch was the big thing.

[W1nTry]

Remamber when the calculator watch was the big thing.

ways.. fuh real... all too true these things we bringing up...

Here's one for the younger folks:
Remember when we had  the north stand? LMAO
Remember when the only thing the government used to build was housing schemes... not smelter, stadium, etc
Remember when the badest cartoons yuh ever see what on 'comic strip' on channel 4.... or was it 2... lol
Remember when a roti was $6-$8
Remember when it used to take an WHOLE HOUR to reach POS from sando?
Remember when they didn't have a VISIBLE layer of smog above the cities?
Remember when the ONLY thing yuh wanted to do when yuh reach home is go ride yuh bike or play football in the road with yuh neighbours
Remember when 2 buttons on a console was enough
Remember when they had GREEN SANDS!!!!!!

[~*Ashiee*~]

Allyuh remember 1990 and what a year that was

first losing to USA and not going world cup football and than Abu Bakhar and he nonesense?

[disciple]

remember when a when 17inch tvs were considered large

remember when PCs shipped without nics, modems, soundcards and cdroms ( everything else was more money..lol)

remember when hittin the playground at a fast food joint was the real flick? ( pizza boys glencoe was it for me)

remeber when hittin the fast food joint for a big lime replaced that joy?  ( pizza hut roxy)

Allyuh remember 1990 and what a year that was

first losing to USA and not going world cup football and than Abu Bakhar and her nonesense?

boy! i real ben cuz instead of macguyver, they show abu

[SPK]

remember when mark died almost the whole of sns crew make it up to mamoral for he funeral

Dred, normally I think most of them wouldn't ever think of even heading up there, but for something like that, he coulda been living Cedros, I woulda made the effort to go...it was a sad day for those who knew him, and one memory I think all gamers close to him will never forget.